Statistics for this calamity include about 900,000 people or as high as 2 million, ranking this flood among the deadliest.

"Nobody really knows how deep the Strid goes." Though only six feet wide and dotted with stepping stones, Yorkshire's ...

The deadliest earthquake in history hit China's Shaanxi province ... As a result of this flood, an estimated 900,000 to 2 million people lost their lives. Excessive rainfall over central China ...

The Kentucky flood of March 1997 was one of the deadliest weather events in the state’s history. Large amounts of rain fell on central Kentucky and southern Indiana from late February through ...

It is one of the worst industrial accidents in the state's history. In the worst mining ... Also known as the Great Molasses Flood, 21 people die and 150 are injured when a storage tank bursts ...

The Georgetown neighborhood of D.C. has experienced a handful of major floods in the past century. Notably, the 1942 flood ...

Spain has been left reeling from its deadliest natural disaster in decades ... The resulting flash flood poured through Valencia and its nearby towns, leaving hundreds trapped in their homes ...

Galton knew the South Toe’s long history of devastating floods ... pushing the river more than 15 feet above flood stage one week and nearly 12 feet the next. He had fastened the high-water ...

The devastation took place nearly a century after the deadliest and longest-running ... longest continuous tornado track in United States history." Connell notes that today's technology allows ...

Europe's deadliest floods since 2021 ... It is possibly Spain's worst in its modern history as the number of victims surpassed 87 people killed in a 1996 flood near the town of Biescas in the ...